Software Engineering Contracts in Knutsford

Software Engineering
Cheshire > Knutsford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Knutsford requiring Software Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 14 31
Rank change year-on-year -8 +17 -1
Contract jobs citing Software Engineering 7 11 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Knutsford 4.79% 10.19% 3.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 11.22% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 4
10th Percentile £346 £463 £512
25th Percentile £365 £487 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £577 £680
Median % change year-on-year -24.89% -15.22% -
75th Percentile £491 £614 £681
90th Percentile £492 - £683
Cheshire median daily rate £433 £510 £680
% change year-on-year -15.10% -25.00% +18.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Knutsford

Software Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Knutsford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 143 98 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Knutsford 97.95% 90.74% 91.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 90 115
10th Percentile £341 £362 £342
25th Percentile £358 £401 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% -7.95% +19.05%
75th Percentile £492 £598 £621
90th Percentile £537 £627 £680
Cheshire median daily rate £455 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Knutsford

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Knutsford.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in Knutsford

Software Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Knutsford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in Knutsford.

Daily rate trend for Software Engineering in Knutsford

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Knutsford by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) ForgeRock Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Designer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) JDBC
1 3 (42.86%) OAuth
1 3 (42.86%) OAuth2
1 3 (42.86%) OpenID
1 3 (42.86%) SOAP
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) CSS3
2 1 (14.29%) GraphQL
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) HTML5
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) React
2 1 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
2 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) PKI
1 3 (42.86%) Taxonomies
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Mentoring
2 3 (42.86%) API Integration
2 3 (42.86%) Coaching
2 3 (42.86%) DevSecOps
2 3 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
2 3 (42.86%) Identity Management
2 3 (42.86%) Kalman Filter
2 3 (42.86%) Open Source
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Code Quality
3 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Experience
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) API Development
4 1 (14.29%) Front End Development
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
1 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) ForgeRock
1 3 (42.86%) Ping Identity
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle